/lit/ - Literature

Oh but I lust for those toes

I'm an average man who has his needs.

Looks like pride and prejudice if I'm to ferret a guess, common fare for the ladies in all walks.

This must be that bit that gits the knickers twisted of many a bint, wherein the protagonist's mum succumbs to the reality of the patriarchal nature of households in days gone by, promising her many daughters hands away in order to secure their standing.

This is good stuff for the birds to read by the by.

I don't like this thread

>>10499002
My French penpal loves the Romantics and Victorians. She's not once mentioned anything about prose, though; she only cares about the plots and bragging about how she's well-read. I'm pretty sure men are more inclined to care about prose. I don't know how representative she is of the whole, but women like my penpal don't really care for prose.

>>10499026
>to ferret a guess

What in God's name is that expression supposed to mean?

>>10499002
You could have at least posted some decent feet.

>>10499050

Wouldn't you like to know!

>>10499002
>she reads her lady trash
>she doesnt watch her lady trash

im ok with this

>>10499050
>>to ferret a guess
to ferret means to find (forcibly, out of small niches)
I suppose the out of small niches isn't actually a thing, but that's the connotation I have.
People used to (or still do? maybe?) use ferrets to drive rabbits and rats out of burrows. So to ferret something means to "drive to the surface".

>>10499116

>People used to (or still do? maybe?) use ferrets to drive rabbits and rats out of burrows

oh they still do, no doubts there, no surer or cleaner way to root out varmints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg6L-rp9OEU

>>10499002
Sorry, not even that good. My friends all read John Green and Hunger Games ripoff #234. Pride and Prejudice is a rare thing. I'd love to have a friend who even read Austen, let alone any of the stuff I like (which apparently is too triggering).

>>10499002
Imagine if women came here to smell their own asses like the rest of /lit/. What would they tout, which things would they try to impress each other with? Would they post Action Adventure novels in an attempt to discredit men?

>>10499251
I come here and post in the same threads you all do. My reading tastes aren't different just because I'm a girl.

>>10499251
>Imagine if women came here
Hi anon

I just blend in with the men though desu

>>10499271
>>10499311
lies

>>10499271
>>10499311
So, do you pretend to be men in all of these women hating generals?

>>10499329
you mean you're not?

>>10499329
>>10499324
No, not lies. I don't pretend to be male, I rarely feel the need to state my gender except when it's a direct thing like this >>10499251
There's no point trying to change someone who despises women's mind. It's a shame most people on here do, since finding men offline who like classics is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

>>10499329
> So, do you pretend to be men in all of these women hating generals?

yeah, but then again everyone here is pretending to be men.

>>10499334
A woman? No.

>>10499341
Well that's the perplexing thing to me. Why come here? Specifically why here in such a thread?

>>10499347
cuz its funny

>>10499343
Me either, I was totally lying about being in possession of vagoo.

>>10499271
>>10499311

Post feet

>>10499353
pls anon, this is blue board, get them to post socks

>>10499347
>Here?
Because I like to talk about books.
>This thread or others like it?
To see if you really do all hate women. Turns out you do.

>>10499353
no mine are ugly and big

>>10499341
>finding ANYONE offline who like classics is like searching for a needle in a haystack
fix'd it for you

>>10499341
Look I gotta ask you some real shit if you're not a fraud. How the fuck do I get my gf to stop eating ice-cream? This bitch is a slob

>>10499359
>To see if you really do all hate women. Turns out you do.
if you were a real grill, you'd know hating women doesn't not in anyway preclude them from being womens

>>10499359
The people here are mostly mentally disturbed.

>>10499362
True.
>>10499365
>doesn't not
Please try harder.
Of course women can hate women. But I'm not a lesbian, so I don't care if some women hate women. I do care that the entirety of the kind of man I like (one's who read) hate women.

>>10499362
if you idiots studied hard and just kept your feelings inside instead of sperging out, you could have been somewhere where theres only people interested in classics. thats what universities are.

alas, now begins the sun setting on your precociousness. soon people will stop treating you based on the potential you had, and start treating you based on the potential you wasted. then the real bitterness will start. this is nuthin'

>>10499364
Don't buy ice cream? Hint that you're not attracted to her or that she's getting fat?

>>10499368
>Please try harder.
why? you just said you're not a dyke so you just lost all your pull with me. time to give the thread some feet if you want to be an attention whore

>>10499368
What are your favorites to read?

>>10499364

tell her shes gaining weight, but not in an obvious way. if she doesn't break up with you, shell probably stop eating ice-cream.

>>10499372
>why? you just said you're not a dyke so you just lost all your pull with me. time to give the thread some feet if you want to be an attention whore
I meant with your grammar. A double negative contracted form?

>>10499377
>pls2bewrtittngproper
i think your tits are working harder for your IRL than you give them credit for because i;m not moved atall w/.out them. share with the class.

>>10499378
anon its a mystery why you dont have a gf

>>10499378
That would be a biting response if you'd actually say that to someone IRL.

>>10499379
i've two, we're very liberal, you're a dumb tease tho who doesn't know how/when to show off her assets. they're what make people listen to your shit irl, and you can upload them here and get the same treatment.

My mother keeps farting in the bath tub while she reads torture porn novels
Could any femanon in this thread tell me if this is common behaviour? I haven't spoken to a girl for about 3 years now sadly

>>10499373
I love the Russians (Bulgakov, Leskov and Gogol are my favourites, but I have read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), classical Chinese and Japanese texts like Journey to the West and Tale of the Heike, Milton, Virginia Woolf, Joyce, TS Eliot, Flaubert, Stendhal etc. I love Conrad especially, and John Fowles, and have a soft spot for the Beats when I'm feeling down. I also like Murakami, as lighter reading. I dabble in philosophical works as well, and am reading Either/ Or at the moment.

>tfw there are no more femanons with the balls to post their feet for the benefit of the whole community
ah, good old times of /lit/ are gone

>>10499381
I'd be able to see her tits then, she might seem pleasant

>>10499384
>Double GF bragging

This is next level stuff.

>>10499378
>i think your tits are working harder for your IRL than you give them credit for because i;m not moved atall w/.out them. share with the class.
Pass. I'll keep my feet and my breasts to myself.

>>10499384
no not really im flat chested. thats why im on 4chan. so no-one can see how flat-chested i am

>>10499389
it's a fine literary tradition. read woolf or anything about highsmith

>>10499384
That's not me. I don't care whether you have a gf or not, I'm still not showing you my chest.

>>10499390
>Pass. I'll keep my feet and my breasts to myself.
but they're so much better than your opinions
>>10499391
>kawaii
:3

>>10499386
That's interesting. I'm into the Russians as well, but I usually stick to American writers, not because of any superiority kick or intolerance, but because they are most accessible to me. What you would say is the reason you read?

>>10499393
>That's not me
But it has your name on it anonymous. And seems much more pleasant for its offer of tits. I'd like you more if you were her.

>>10499390
You could be remembered forever if you posted them. Just think about it.

>>10499359
>To see if you really do all hate women. Turns out you do.
Yes but I also hate niggers, kikes, mudslimes, poos, chinks, gooks, abbos, spics and whites.
I'm quite egalitarian with my hate

>>10499388
Wow, edgy. Do you walk around with a cane you don't need and offer witty criticisms in places besides your fanfictions?

>>10499400
What about you is superior to them?

>>10499398

cool i could be the next kennedi. doxxed and have my picture accompany gross paragraphs that oscillate between whore/madonna complexes at rapid speeds

>>10499364
10/10 post

>>10499394
>but they're so much better than your opinions
Which are still better than your opinions.

>>10499404
Wouldn't you just not post your tits because you don't want random people to see them?

>>10499395
>What you would say is the reason you read?
I was a loner in primary and high school, and since my parents are a literature professor and a librarian books were the natural thing to turn to.

>>10499404
You don't have to post your face tho

>>10499387
>penguin classics
How is anyone supposed to fap to this?

>>10499410
i kind of want to now. it would give my paranoia a tangible reason to exist.

>>10499412
I don't care for the book desu

>>10499409
Well that's why I started reading too, except that my parents are poor and do not read. But why do you keep reading? What kind of book are you hoping to find when you read? What are you getting out of them?

Based on my social circle, such as it is (read: a group of loose acquaintances)
>the average girl reads buzzfeed
>there is a percentage of girls who read YA and Harry Potter
>an even smaller percentage read Jane Austen and the Brontes
>I've yet to meet anyone else, of either gender, who reads what I like to read (Greeks, the russians, modernists, etc. etc.) which is really disappointing since I'm very lonely

>>10499401
nah, it's just obvious. the joke doesn't work if you can see her tits. you'd have to be as dumb as her to not get that.

>>10499414
You're very Feuerbachian, I like you. Definitely post yourself.

>>10499384
>i have 20 girlfriends and they're all supermodels

>>10499403
>implying I don't hate myself

>>10499419
>But why do you keep reading?
Escapism, the hopes of learning something new, filling time, finding meaning. Why do you read?

>>10499407
no, so far they've mostly been wrong, more so than mine. i'm guessing at least a full C if you get this much offtopic nonsense into your regular conversation

>>10499424
how many liberal supermodels do you know? well done if you got twenty.

>>10499419
its a break from the disappointing and often unremarkable life i lead. and its easier to project my own feelings onto compared to film or games or whatever.

and it also gives me something to believe in. reading a book i can delude myself that people who write pages of contrived shit can have a positive impact on the world. it gives you hope that maybe you can change something about the world without getting into violent revolution. its a way of freeing yourself from the oppressive prison that is your own brain.

Ah yes, the prose. The prooooooose. the PROOOOOOOSE. There's a reason why the pseuds on this website are always so willing to talk about "the prose" of a book when discussing its merits or flaws. Why attempt to analyze the merits and effects of the literary devices used to add to the development of characters, why attempt to understand the interplay of the perspectives of different characters and the emphasis this places on different themes, the spectrum of ironies used throughout the novel, the historical significance of the novel and the influence it has spawned in literary tradition or the influences seen throughout the work, the specific structure and literary underpinnings of the novel and the way it influences the tone, the author's relationship to the characters and the theme, the presentation of the novel itself to the audience and thus the relationship between reader and text --- why do any of this, when you could talk about "the prose?" You know that you have such a deep understanding of the book, don't you, when you talk about "the prose," the "musicality of it," the "sparseness." What a great artistic touch you have, don't you! Such a highly refined poetic sense! And you feel like such a true reader of literature when you are able to compare these styles: "I am partial to the lyricism of Joyce's prose, as well as the clean and scientific prose of Borges," you might say. What a deep understanding you show! Because the "prose" of a work is such an accessible topic, something that is felt immediately in the body and senses, a nice little sensation and flutter of the heart. Art obviously has nothing else to it, nothing other than the little sensations that I experience, because why should i attempt to understand it on a deeper level than this, when I have such a "refined" sense of the "prose?" Why even attempt to analyze the prose and the poetic and rhythmical underpinnings of it, when I could use a pretty little metaphor for it? It matters little that virtually every reader of literature has access to the music of the words and so my understanding is not quite so advanced as I would think, that form is something that goes hand in hand with theme, that I missed all the deep relationships between characters and between text and reader that existed in the work and that comprise a large part of the literary merit of the text, for my understanding of "the prose" shows such a mastery of language, a fine-tuned sense of the magical flow of the words! Having understood this work, I may as well move onto the next, the next bundle of pretty sensations to experience, the next bagful of fun linguistic treats!

>friendly reminder pro-Austen camp has Bloom, Nabokov, and Strauss, while the most famous detractor is a literal corncobber

>>10499423
thanks anon

>>10499428
What opinions have I even stated?
Men on here not liking women isn't an opinion, it's fact, as is the fact that's it's a waste of time trying to change people's minds.

>>10499422
The jokes get funnier when the audience realizes it's highly probable that your tits are bigger than hers are.

>>10499441
rofl

>>10499425
Then fucking kill yourself or find something to do.

>>10499427
I read because I'm hoping to find meaning and new ideas and somehow figure out how to live my life.

>>10499342
Ohh!

>>10499436
I think that books can actually teach you about life in order to improve it, but people don't actually believe when things are told to them at face value so they ignore what the book tells them. A lot of people, certainly not all.

>>10499440
>they're definitely men who hate me
>and they definitely hate other women not me specifically for being retarded
that would in no way explain why you're arguing with a dyke about the same things. but you know, that's just logic, not any shit you need to worry about
>>10499441
ikr we should meet up for a measuring contest.

People on this board unironically like White Noise. You disgusting philistines have no business assessing quality of Austen's dialogue.

>>10499452
idk that seems like a dfw-y thing to say. i dunno if Pynchon teaches me about life. i think what he mainly does is tell me its okay and that im not the only one who feels the way i do. parts of Against the Day feel like, Pynchon reaching out and giving me a big hug

maybe in our po-mo ass world thats teaching you something about life. that you're not alone and that you dont have to feel a certain way if you dont want to. thats what 4chan is for too.

>>10499456
I'd say yes, but meet up probably means, "Come to my house." I doubt you leave home often.

How vigorously are you masturbating to this rare amount of female contact?

>>10499456
>that would in no way explain why you're arguing with a dyke about the same things. but you know, that's just logic, not any shit you need to worry about
None of this actually makes sense, I'm not sure how you got that from what I said at all.
Are you a dyke? If so it explains a lot. The aggression, the lack of basic English, the ability to make massive leaps of conclusion not founded in the post being replied to. Seems like tumblr is more your style.

This thread is already getting boring

>>10499421
>Jane Austen and the Brontes
Literally nothing wrong with this but don't they like get done? I mean, Austen and the Brontë sisters wrote like 15 novels together, even with rereading I feel like you'd have to move on after a couple of years.

>>10499445
>Then fucking kill yourself or find something to do.
um sweetie, you're attention whoring on a nepalese silk weaving forum. I don't think you can give other advices

>>10499459
I'd say that Pynchon's effect on you is proof that he teaches you about life. Not all writers can teach life as well as others, and some of the best style writers don't do it nearly as well as others, I think.

I agree with what you are saying about 4chan too, it's a place where you can understand even someone who you fucking hate.

>>10499461
>Are you a dyke? If so it explains a lot. The aggression, the lack of basic English, the ability to make massive leaps of conclusion not founded in the post being replied to. Seems like tumblr is more your style.
>has never read woolf
>has never read sappho
>has never read highsmith
see, if you were male or a lesbian, that would make you a shit person, but since you've tits and no brains, not knowing that kind of shit doesn't matter so long as you bounce enough within visible range.

again, emphasising the "within visible range" part.

>>10499460
>in lesbian threesome
>I BET YOU NEVER SEE FEMALES
you know we're even left out in the street? (jurisdictions vary)

>>10499461
God damn, it's so stale. It hurts to read, I don't know how bad it must feel to write.

>>10499474
>see, if you were male or a lesbian, that would make you a shit person, but since you've tits and no brains, not knowing that kind of shit doesn't matter so long as you bounce enough within visible range.
I've read Woolf, and Sappho and Highsmith. What of it? Like I said, you keep bringing up irrelevant bullshit.

>>10499469
Well at least I don't hate myself. And that was my point anyway. I don't mean do something productive, I mean find something that's less useless than being a hateful hypocrite. I feel like that would just be a miserable existence.

>>10499368
So, I don't get one thing. You like men who read but you're aware such men hate you. Right? Then how do you solve this problem?

>>10499474
>see, if you were male or a lesbian, that would make you a shit person, but since you've tits and no brains, not knowing that kind of shit doesn't matter so long as you bounce enough within visible range.
Goddamn, I am a lesbian and you seem like an utter bitch, and a moron to boot. Why do you keep saying she hasn't read things or whatever, or is only good for boobs when she's clearly said in above posts that she reads a lot of different things?

>>10499474
Here you are attacking my replusive recluse argument but you're the one pushing the "Dumb womens are dumb." as if anyone would take the bait. How badly do you want to hatefuck your mother?

>>10499480
Dying alone?

>>10499385
>living with your mother

>>10499387
>>10499412
nonoko

>>10499480
That's a fucking stupid thing to say. Not everyone who reads is a avid /lit/ poster.

>>10499482
>can't handle bantz
by lesbian do you mean "angry"?
>>10499483
of course dumb women are dumb, that's tautological.

>>10499474
Genuine question, why do you think I'm stupid or haven't read things just for being female? You don't know me. Why are you so angry?

>>10499487
Holy... Is that the same person?

>>10499489
>the entirety of the kind of man I like (one's who read) hate women
That's what she said

>>10499491
>by lesbian do you mean "angry"?
Nope, I mean you're a bitch. And what you're doing isn't banter, it's just random rants with the word "tits" repeated and no coherency or even clarity of expression.

>>10499494
i'm not angry, i'm just pointing out you're doing badly at attention whoring. some women can do it well and realise they need to post their tits to be judged on something other than saying "muh women" if the only thing they have to say is "muh women". you're not that smart, and it's a low bar. i won't ask you to do the math, i'm not cruel.

>>10499474
Are you a dyke?

>>10499482
>>10499483
>>10499494
>>10499499
I think you should start living the goblins alone

>>10499491
>Le bantz

Not every half baked insult is banter. You must think you're a master commedieanne.

>>10499505
*leaving

>>10499499
i assume she wanted attention to her tits when she posted on 4chan about being a woman. what the hell else would any reasonable person thing would be the outcome? special treatment? did that work for any other women? no? wow, it would seem it's delusion to think tits or gtfo isn't like a meme, you know, or something *giggles*
you're the reason why a lot of women are shit, because your standards for them being a bitch is asking competence of other women.

>>10499501
>i'm not angry, i'm just pointing out you're doing badly at attention whoring
a) I'm not attention whoring, please point out in what way I am
b) How have you deduced that I'm not "smart"?
c)Why would I want to post my tits?
d) For fuck's sake, learn to use some capitalisation.

>>10499501
Can you actually try an insult that isn't the exact same punchline over and over?

>>10499509
It's literally a thread about women, you mongoloid. This is the appropriate place to state gender, if you're a girl talking about your reading habits and the reading habits of your female friends when the thread is about female reading habits.

>>10499510
>it's definitely not attention whoring to declare i'm a woman on 4chan and act like they would never ask for your tits or feet or butthole
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA leddit doesn't think about about 4chan

WTF are you actually thinking?

>>10499516
dude you're a bit off

>>10499509
>*giggles*
That is the most cringy thing I've seen tonight.
>you're the reason why a lot of women are shit, because your standards for them being a bitch is asking competence of other women
She's made valid points, you're the one who reads like an idiot who brings in non sequiturs all the time and can't write. You're giving us lesbians a bad name.

>>10499516
Last I checked this was a thread in which stating gender is appropriate, since I am a woman and I know women, so I know something about what average women read.

>>10499509
>inb4 this anon starts saying he was just trolling

Everyone who's claimed to be a woman in here did so after I asked what it would be like if women actually came here. Then they said they just try to fit in. Look at this rant though.

Nobody asked for special treatment, you just started sperging out and firing off "women are dumb" jokes hoping one would stick.

Can I ask what makes you competent at all?

>>10499516
Holy shit an extended fake laugh sequence.

Please keep going.

Actual girl here, I want to be raped by all of you at once

>>10499531
Post em

>>10499515
The problem is that it seems like women hating might be hating people who want social norms bent to their individual identification, rather than hating you for being a woman. Or hating you for your opinions.

If you want to be equal to every male on the board, be prepared to be called a dumb ass cocksucker who has not done a wikipedia survery as research, and who has mentioned no books. The other anon is mentioning books and highly valued female lesbian/bisexual writers.... it's unlikely that anon hates women, so much as disagrees with you, personally. That you happen to be a woman does not get you out of people disagreeing with you.

>>10499531
Post the largest novel you've ever stuffed yourself with

>>10499520
>>10499524
>>10499528
>Holy shit an extended fake laugh sequence.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
SINCE WHEN?

Srsly, did we stop getting known for porn and creeping at some point? Who the fuck honestly believes that is not going to happen?

>>10499535
I have only been lurking, but the girl she's taken issue with has mentioned plenty of books, as well as saying she has read Sappho and Woolf etc. In spite of that, the dyke/guy has gone on a rant about tits and fake laughter etc. etc. and it's patently ridiculous. And giving us dykes a bad name.

>>10499535
Oh god nobody was crying inequality you fucking monkey moron.

You didn't even disagree with anyone, you've literally just posted insults.

>>10499478
>I feel like that would just be a miserable existence
why do u think i read?

>>10499026
where the fuck did "bint" come from

>>10499539
What are you even talking about.

>>10499546
How to you connect with characters when you seem to hate everyone?

>>10499552
only read Dostoyevsky

>>10499541
>girls she's taken issue with has mentioned plenty of books
The girl she took issue with seems to say lesbians (which would include Sappho certainly, and Woolf to some extent) are terrible writers, at which point the lesbian goes off on her for being dumb and needing boobs to count as interesting.

To be perfectly honest with you familia, if you said something that tasteless about lesbian writers when they're most of the good female authors in canon, I'd call you all kind of names too. Because that is a dumb opinion. The lesbian seems to be mentioning more books, and seems to know that lesbians don't write like
>tumblr

Woolf=tumblr deserves talking down to.

>>10499552
he reads only to shitpost on here

>>10499553
Then why come here?

>>10499555
>Familia
>mentioning tumblr
>mocking Woolf when he can't even write a coherent sentence

>>10499487
That's better. Now I only wish I was a foot fetishist.

>>10499562
I'm not mocking Woolf, I'm saying the lesbian went off because of this
>>10499461
>Are you a dyke? If so it explains a lot. The aggression, the lack of basic English, the ability to make massive leaps of conclusion not founded in the post being replied to. Seems like tumblr is more your style.
Lesbians are some of the best English and general literature, and they aren't tumblr, and the girl you think is getting attacked deserves to get attacked for saying that.

If you want to be pissed off at her (the no posting boobs femanon) for saying Woolf and Sappho are tumblr tier and mocking them, you have my support.

>>10499552
what if I prefer characters to real life people?

>>10499556
that's definitely a plus desu

>>10499592
What the fuck are characters for?

>>10499592
>that's definitely a plus desu
no, it isn't.

>>10499002
OP here.

This was meant to be a thinly veiled feet thread.

Can we get back on topic?

>>10499666
>tfw no foot fetish

>>10499697
how do you acquire it? asking for a friend

>>10499703
Watch feet hypno till you like it

>>10499703
I was never interested in feet, until my first wetdream was giving a female friend a foot massage

It's only grown since then

>>10499002
Can someone explain feet to me? Why?

well its not average, its below average

>>10499192
thats youe fault for having shit friends

>>10499996
I never cared about feet one way or the other until my girlfriend started resting her feet on my thighs under her little ass dining table and brushed them against my cock occasionally, now I think footjobs are hot as shit.

>>10499703
It just sort of happens. I started watching lesbo porn with toe sucking and i just developed a thing for small, well-manicured feet

>>10499996
for me it's intimacy

>>10499703
>>10499996
It happens with circumstances of life, I was laying on the bed with gf and she started rubbing her delicate foot on my pants because she felt like giving me a handjob but without actually touching me (we were both very young and awkward). I lost it since then

>>10499996
This should shed some light on them:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolution/

>1% through the book
>still posts on social media, much to soon to figure out if she likes it or not
>gives it free advertisement anyway

>>10499487
Shit tier

>>10500178
nah it's just the angle

>>10499487
Keep posting them.

>>10499002
>Austen
>disgusting prose
you need to go back. Austenthots do not discredit Austen's literary credentials.